Good morning! I didn’t come up with that headline, but damn if it doesn’t fit. Let’s dig in: 1. Behold the evisceration. In Reno yesterday, Clinton laid into the Trump’s campaign’s alliance with what’s known as the alt-right, which is a polite term for white supremacists, including the hiring of Breitbart CEO/alleged wife beater Stephen […]
Jeffrey C. Billman
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You Live in One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth. Get Out There.
In a few weeks, maybe a month, we’ll finally shake this convection-oven summer heat and soul-crushing humidity. And for a while, before winter takes hold, the Triangle will be as close to paradise as it gets. Not too hot, not too cold, not suffocatingly humid. The leaves will begin to turn, and the torpid air […]
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The Triangle Has Lots of Great Hiking Trails. Here Are Seven of Our Favorites.
There are few better ways to get your Zen on than spending an early-autumn afternoon deep in the woods, away from people and traffic and commotion and the stresses of everyday life, communing instead with giant oak trees and winding creeks, maybe a deer off in the distance. Whether you’re a novice or an old […]
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What Aetna’s Decision to Leave the Obamacare Exchange Says about the Future of For-Profit Health Care
This wasn’t a banner week for the Affordable Care Act. Last Tuesday, Aetna abruptly announced that it was pulling out of eleven of the fifteen Obamacare exchanges in which it did business; North Carolina’s was among them. This followed similar decisions by UnitedHealth Group and Humana, which reported nine-figure annual losses on the exchanges. Aetna […]
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Is Pat McCrory’s DHHS Willing to Jeopardize Lives to Appease the Boss’s Former Employer?
It’s a rare thing when the governor’s chief of staff convenes a Tuesday late-night press conference. It’s a rarer thing when the governor’s chief of staff convenes a Tuesday late-night press conference just to accuse a low-profile bureaucrat of lying under oath. The bureaucrat in question is Kenneth Rudo, a state toxicologist (and registered Republican) […]
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Political Cartoonists Hate HB 2 Just as Much as You Do
Do you love cutting-edge political satire? Beautifully drawn, award-winning cartoons? Potty humor? Have we got a show for you. Starting Friday, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will present an exhibit at Horse & Buggy Press (401-B Foster Street, Durham) titled Bathroom Humor: National Cartoonists Take on HB2, curated by our very own Cullum Rogers. […]
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Updated: Reports of Shot Fired at Crabtree Mall
Editor’s note, Sunday, 6:30 a.m.: I updated the headline of this post to reflect Raleigh police’s uncertainty about whether there was in fact a shooting, despite multiple witness accounts and several 911 calls. —Saturday, 3 p.m.: Journalist Kenneth Fine, who is on the scene at the Crabtree Mall, has been told by a Raleigh police […]
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The Morning Roundup: In Which McCrory Blames Clinton for Trump’s Assassination Joke
Good morning. The weekend is nigh. Let’s get to it. 1. Thanks, Hillary Governor McCrory—who was criticized by certain media outlets for his radio silence after Trump suggested that “Second Amendment people” could stop a President Hillary Clinton from appointing liberal judges—has finally broken that silence. Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday that he has no […]
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On Donald Trump and the Silence of His Defenders
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” —Edmund Burke If Donald Trump were a better politician, this is the headline we’d be talking about this morning: “Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap.” A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed […]
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The INDY’s Tattoo Issue
I have two tattoos, both on my back, though I don’t show them off very much. The firsta weird sun-like thing to celebrate a waning freshman-year depressionI got in college. The second, a clef note to remind me to focus on what I want and not what a certain ex-girlfriend wanted of me, came after […]
